[FreeNX-kNX] xterm "Cannot allocate color" error with freenx

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Sat Jul 15 07:55:05 UTC 2006


one common error is to add color on the remote rgb.txt.
are your sure that your local rgb is the same ?

re,
  wh

Volker Gaibler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:46:35PM -0400, qqmichaelqq at netscape.net wrote:
>> The freenx server is looking for the X11 rgb in /usr/lib/X11, but in 
>> Dapper rgb lives in /etc/X11. So the fix is to create a link from one 
>> to the other:
>>
>> sudo ln -s /etc/X11/rgb.txt /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt
> 
> I've got the same problem on Debian Etch and created that symlink. 
> Didn't help. For xterm these problems stopped when I just didn't some of 
> these "bad colors" anymore, but that's no solution. For "display" from 
> ImageMagick and some other programs I still get these "color is not 
> known to server" messages with colors "black", "blue", "cyan", "white" 
> and so on.
> 
> Any ideas what could be wrong?
> 
> Volker
> 
> 



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